John Washington HarveyAge: 85 years1866–1951
- Name
- John Washington Harvey
- Given names
- John Washington
- Surname
- Harvey
 Birth | February 16, 1866 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 10 months)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 10 months)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 2 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 11 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Mildred Ann “Millie” Nolan — View this family June 11, 1889 (Age 23 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Geneva Madeline Harvey June 25, 1904 (Age 38 years) Note: Birth year/place based on Social Security Death Index |
 Census | April 15, 1910 (Age 44 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 49 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 50 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 51 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Marriage of a child | Michael A Snyder — Geneva Madeline Harvey — View this family June 20, 1922 (Age 56 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 63 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Death of a wife | Mildred Ann “Millie” Nolan February 27, 1945 (Age 79 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 75 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 83 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 79 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
 Death | July 28, 1951 (Age 85 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mount Hope Cemetery |
| Family with Mildred Ann “Millie” Nolan |
| himself |
John Washington Harvey Birth: February 16, 1866 — Royal Center, Cass, Indiana, United States Death: July 28, 1951 — Logansport, Cass, Indiana, United States |
| wife |
Mildred Ann “Millie” Nolan Birth: November 8, 1866 — Louisville, Nelson, Kentucky, United States Death: February 27, 1945 — Silver Creek, Cass, Michigan, United States |
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Marriage: June 11, 1889 — Boone, Indiana, United States |
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15 years daughter |
Geneva Madeline Harvey Birth: June 25, 1904 38 37 — Logansport, Indiana, United States Death: June 13, 1998 — Arizona, United States |
| Census | 1910 United States - Census transcript - John Washington Harvey - Household
Logansport, Cass, Indiana, United States
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